Ms. Hicks, by portraying Trump as being in charge and saying that he set the direction and everyone else followed, she put his fingerprints all over the cover-up. By saying that Michael Cohen's selfish need to get credit for his efforts would prevent him from paying off Stormy Daniels on his own, she undermined a major defense position. She did what the prosecution needed her to do.

She didn't lie or obfuscate for him. Nor did she call him names or purposely portray him negatively. 'Twas a "job well done," indeed.

This 3.9% marks over 30-months that unemployment has been under 4%. Two periods in the last 70-years (35- months in the 1970s and 27-months in the 1950s) have similar low unemployment streaks. On Trump's watch, the economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%.

By the way, the Fed has been trying to produce this softening in job growth by holding interest rates at their current levels as part of their inflation control actions.

Of course, all of the above are facts, not alternative hokum.

They are independent of the White House. They do not answer to the Predisent.

The weight loss analogy has a major problem. Employers, Retirement Systems, Social Security and other sources of income provide annual cost of living adjustments. Also, some things like gas, coal and oil fluctuate, inflating and deflating. Inflation rates factor these in.